# Post ts_117394338110958110

- Post ID: `ts_117394338110958110`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-06T14:04:02.366Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> FoxNews is long form interviewing the sleazebag, Dan Osborn, right now, who is running against our GREAT Republican Senator, Pete Ricketts, from Nebraska. Why are they doing this??? The “other side” doesn’t give our people any positive exposure or airtime. It is a miracle that I won, the last by a landslide, three Presidential Races! President DJT

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-07T22:24:06.728Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This was his second complaint of the day about Fox giving airtime to opponents. Hours after objecting to Martha MacCallum's interview of El-Sayed ("She never interviews me like that"), he reacted live to a Fox interview with Nebraska independent Dan Osborn. He called Osborn a "sleazebag" and asked Fox, "Why are they doing this???" The complaint is about loyalty more than coverage. "The 'other side' doesn't give our people any positive exposure" treats Fox as a team asset that has defected.

The post then turns to himself: "It is a miracle that I won, the last by a landslide, three Presidential Races!" The count includes 2020, which he lost, and "landslide" inflates a 1.5-point popular-vote plurality. Both appear as background fact rather than argument. The repair follows a familiar sequence. A rival gets attention he thinks belongs to his side, and he answers by restating his record in its largest form, casting himself as both a besieged underdog and an overwhelming winner. The stolen-2020 claim is a long-held position, not a new distortion. Its use here as a passing aside shows how settled it has become in his account of himself.

## Watching Fox give airtime to the wrong candidate

The post reacts to live television: "FoxNews is long form interviewing the sleazebag, Dan Osborn, right now." It posted at 14:04 UTC, which is 10:04 a.m. Eastern on a Tuesday. No travel is recorded for the day, so Washington is the likely location. A mid-morning time would normally point toward staff, but the text cuts against that. "right now" places it during a broadcast he was watching. "Why are they doing this???" carries three question marks. The scare quotes around "other side" and the jammed clause "the last by a landslide, three Presidential Races!" read as unedited. Fox is not attacked in polished terms, and nothing in the post describes a policy or an event, which is what a staff draft would usually do. Confidence that he wrote it himself is high.

### Third Fox grievance of the day

Context matters most for this post. Earlier the same day he complained that Fox "spends more time covering the Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates" and that Martha MacCallum gave El-Sayed a "softball interview," adding "She never interviews me like that." This post makes the same complaint about a second guest a few hours later. The grievance is that a friendly network is giving time to an opponent. The underlying schema is that friendly media owes loyalty. "The 'other side' doesn't give our people any positive exposure or airtime" casts news coverage as a partisan exchange between teams, so Fox interviewing an opponent counts as defection, not journalism. Repeating a single complaint within a day fits a grievance still being worked over. It does not fit perseveration in the cognitive sense, because each post is set off by a new broadcast.

The trigger is comparative. Attention he believes belongs to Republicans, and through them to himself, is going to a rival, and this comes during a week of midterm headwinds (the weak September jobs report, the Dayton-area layoffs). The response moves from the complaint to himself in one step. The first three sentences concern Osborn, Ricketts and Fox. The fourth is "It is a miracle that I won." Shifting a Senate-race complaint to his own record is a familiar self-referential drift, and the logic holds: if the media is this hostile, his victories must be extraordinary.

### Split ratings and a revised count of wins

Splitting carries the evaluations: "the sleazebag, Dan Osborn" against "our GREAT Republican Senator, Pete Ricketts." Osborn is attacked by character label alone, with no policy or conduct named. It is also notable what label is missing. Osborn runs as an independent and Trump does not call him a "Dumocrat" here, though he used that word twice in the earlier posts. He keeps the party labels accurate even while the insult is personal.

The closing line, "I won, the last by a landslide, three Presidential Races!", restates the claim that he won in 2020, which he lost. He has repeated it for six years, so it is not new confabulation. It is a fixed belief, offered here in passing as background and not as a claim to argue. Calling 2024 a "landslide" inflates a narrow popular-vote plurality. Both claims enlarge his record at the moment he feels the network is shrinking his side's share of attention. This is distortion as a defense: the injury, Fox elevating a rival, is answered by restating his record in its biggest form. Narcissistic state is mixed. "It is a miracle" casts him as the underdog who beat a hostile press, and the inflated tally recasts that underdog as the dominant victor.

### Rhetoric and risk

The devices are ad hominem ("sleazebag"), us-versus-them framing ("our people," "the 'other side'"), a rhetorical question used as accusation ("Why are they doing this???"), and superlative inflation ("GREAT," "landslide"). The rhetorical pressure is aimed at Fox, not at Osborn's supporters: the question asks an ally to fall back into line. Osborn is insulted but not dehumanized, and the post contains no instruction or mobilizing language.

On cognition, the clause "It is a miracle that I won, the last by a landslide, three Presidential Races!" puts its object ("three Presidential Races") after an interrupting aside. That is a compressed but recoverable construction found throughout his casual posting history, and it is no sign of word-finding failure. Names, the state and the office are all correct.

Archetypally the post joins the Victim, who won despite a media that never gives "our people" airtime, to the King, who demands loyalty from his own court's broadcaster. Fox is treated as a part of the order that has to be brought back into line, not as an outside enemy.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Dan Osborn is running against Republican Senator Pete Ricketts in Nebraska" | **True** | Osborn, an independent and former union leader who lost to Deb Fischer in 2024, launched a 2026 independent challenge to Ricketts for Nebraska's Senate seat. |
| "Trump won three presidential races" | **False** | Trump won in 2016 and 2024 and lost in 2020 to Joe Biden, 306 to 232 electoral votes. Courts, state certifications and his own Justice Department found no fraud that would change the outcome. |
| "Trump won the 2024 race by a landslide" | **Mostly False** | Trump won 312 to 226 in the Electoral College and swept the seven swing states, but his popular-vote share was about 49.8% to Harris's 48.3%. That is a plurality and one of the narrowest popular margins of recent elections, below the usual landslide threshold. |
| "The 'other side' (non-Fox media) doesn't give Republicans any positive exposure or airtime" | **Mostly False** | Republican officeholders and candidates regularly appear on CNN, MSNBC and broadcast network Sunday shows. Whether coverage is 'positive' is a judgment, but the blanket claim of no airtime does not hold. |
| "Fox News was conducting a long-form interview with Dan Osborn at the time of posting" | **Half True** | Fox did interview Osborn that morning, at length. The only source that times it, though, says it began about half an hour after Trump posted, so it was not airing "right now".

What is confirmed:
- Fox News's own video page has a clip from America's Newsroom dated October 6, 2026, titled "Dan Osborn addresses leaked audio slamming Trump supporters" (6:33 long). The description says Osborn responds to criticism of the leaked audio about Trump supporters, discusses his challenge to Sen. Pete Ricketts, and reacts to Trump's new diesel executive order.
- The show's X account (@AmericaNewsroom, status 2107508808545189927, embedded by Townhall) posted the exchange tagging @BillHemmer, quoting Osborn: "I should have chosen my words better, I know that." Decoding the post ID gives 16:30 UTC (12:30 p.m. ET), after the 9 to 11 a.m. ET broadcast ended. That fits a clip posted after the show, not the air time.
- Townhall, The Hill, Newsweek, TheWrap, Just the News, Raw Story and Sinclair (TNND) all report the Truth Social post and tie it to Fox's Osborn interview. Townhall names the show and Bill Hemmer.

The timing problem:
- The trump.fm archive dates this post to 14:04:02 UTC (10:04 a.m. ET) on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. The earlier post, which says Fox "spends more time covering the Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates," came at 13:50 UTC. That matches Newsweek's "just minutes after his first post" and Mediaite's 10:04 a.m. time.
- Mediaite (Tom Durante, October 7, syndicated on Yahoo) gives the post at 10:04 a.m. It then says that "nearly a half-hour later" Osborn "spoke with anchor Bill Hemmer for about 10 minutes." By that account the interview had not begun when Trump wrote "right now." He was most likely reacting to an on-air tease of the upcoming segment.
- "Long form" is loosely supported. About 10 minutes (Mediaite), or a 6.5-minute web clip, is long for a single cable-news guest but hardly long-form.

No outlet disputes Mediaite's timing, but none independently confirms it either. No Fox transcript or rundown with air times could be found.

Verdict: half true. Fox did give Osborn an extended interview on America's Newsroom that same morning, so the substance holds. The specific "at the time of posting" element is contradicted by the only source that times the segment, and "long form" overstates a roughly 6 to 10 minute interview. |

Overall Veracity: 38%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Real-time TV reaction: 'right now' while a Fox interview airs
- Triple question marks: 'Why are they doing this???'
- Compressed syntax: 'the last by a landslide, three Presidential Races!'
- Drift from a Senate race complaint to his own electoral record
- Third Fox-coverage grievance of the day, consistent with his own earlier posts

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 10%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 75%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: angry hostility

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** Embattled winner who triumphs despite hostile media
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Dan Osborn and a disloyal Fox News

**Identity Claims:**
- Three-time presidential winner
- Won the last race by a landslide
- Victor against impossible media odds ('a miracle')

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Fox News airing a long-form interview with Dan Osborn, following an earlier Fox interview with El-Sayed)

**Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting Fox News and Dan Osborn
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.55

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- High same-day posting volume on rallies and media coverage
- Rapid shift from Senate race to personal electoral triumph

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 25%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- denial (pathological)
- devaluation (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- 'our people' in-group address
- Positioning the audience as fellow viewers of the offending broadcast
- Underdog miracle narrative inviting supporters to share in vindication

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Claims to have won three presidential races, denying the documented 2020 loss
- Characterizes the narrow 2024 popular-vote plurality as a 'landslide'

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-07._

> Dan Osborn is running against Republican Senator Pete Ricketts in Nebraska

**TRUE**

Osborn, an independent and former union leader who lost to Deb Fischer in 2024, launched a 2026 independent challenge to Ricketts for Nebraska's Senate seat.

Sources: Nebraska Examiner coverage of the 2026 Senate race; Ballotpedia: Dan Osborn

> Trump won three presidential races

**FALSE**

Trump won in 2016 and 2024 and lost in 2020 to Joe Biden, 306 to 232 electoral votes. Courts, state certifications and his own Justice Department found no fraud that would change the outcome.

Sources: Federal Election Commission 2020 results; National Archives Electoral College certificates

> Trump won the 2024 race by a landslide

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Trump won 312 to 226 in the Electoral College and swept the seven swing states, but his popular-vote share was about 49.8% to Harris's 48.3%. That is a plurality and one of the narrowest popular margins of recent elections, below the usual landslide threshold.

Sources: Federal Election Commission 2024 results; Cook Political Report national popular vote tracker

> The 'other side' (non-Fox media) doesn't give Republicans any positive exposure or airtime

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Republican officeholders and candidates regularly appear on CNN, MSNBC and broadcast network Sunday shows. Whether coverage is 'positive' is a judgment, but the blanket claim of no airtime does not hold.

Sources: Sunday show guest tallies (Media Matters, Pew Research Center)

> Fox News was conducting a long-form interview with Dan Osborn at the time of posting

**HALF TRUE**

Fox did interview Osborn that morning, at length. The only source that times it, though, says it began about half an hour after Trump posted, so it was not airing "right now".

What is confirmed:
- Fox News's own video page has a clip from America's Newsroom dated October 6, 2026, titled "Dan Osborn addresses leaked audio slamming Trump supporters" (6:33 long). The description says Osborn responds to criticism of the leaked audio about Trump supporters, discusses his challenge to Sen. Pete Ricketts, and reacts to Trump's new diesel executive order.
- The show's X account (@AmericaNewsroom, status 2107508808545189927, embedded by Townhall) posted the exchange tagging @BillHemmer, quoting Osborn: "I should have chosen my words better, I know that." Decoding the post ID gives 16:30 UTC (12:30 p.m. ET), after the 9 to 11 a.m. ET broadcast ended. That fits a clip posted after the show, not the air time.
- Townhall, The Hill, Newsweek, TheWrap, Just the News, Raw Story and Sinclair (TNND) all report the Truth Social post and tie it to Fox's Osborn interview. Townhall names the show and Bill Hemmer.

The timing problem:
- The trump.fm archive dates this post to 14:04:02 UTC (10:04 a.m. ET) on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. The earlier post, which says Fox "spends more time covering the Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates," came at 13:50 UTC. That matches Newsweek's "just minutes after his first post" and Mediaite's 10:04 a.m. time.
- Mediaite (Tom Durante, October 7, syndicated on Yahoo) gives the post at 10:04 a.m. It then says that "nearly a half-hour later" Osborn "spoke with anchor Bill Hemmer for about 10 minutes." By that account the interview had not begun when Trump wrote "right now." He was most likely reacting to an on-air tease of the upcoming segment.
- "Long form" is loosely supported. About 10 minutes (Mediaite), or a 6.5-minute web clip, is long for a single cable-news guest but hardly long-form.

No outlet disputes Mediaite's timing, but none independently confirms it either. No Fox transcript or rundown with air times could be found.

Verdict: half true. Fox did give Osborn an extended interview on America's Newsroom that same morning, so the substance holds. The specific "at the time of posting" element is contradicted by the only source that times the segment, and "long form" overstates a roughly 6 to 10 minute interview.

Sources: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6406363860112; https://x.com/AmericaNewsroom/status/2107508808545189927; https://townhall.com/news/jeff-charles/2026/10/07/trump-goes-scorched-earth-on-fox-news-over-coverage-n2684268; https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/trump-spent-the-past-week-threatening-fox-news-but-the-fact-hes-still-watching-shows-who-has-the-leverage/; https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-spent-past-week-threatening-155914810.html; https://www.newsweek.com/trump-rips-fox-news-over-interviewing-foes-of-gop-including-abdul-el-sayed-12532724; https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6131787-trump-rallies-fox-news-el-sayed-michigan-osborne-nebraska/; https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-blasts-fox-news-interviews-173241129.html; https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/politics/trump-fox-news-democrats-dan-osborn-abdul-el-sayed/; https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/trump-ramps-criticism-fox-news-over-dan-osborn-interview; https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2678013867/; https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/trump-slams-fox-news-for-allegedly-interviewing-el-sayed-osborne-more-than-gop-candidates-democrats-republicans-martha-maccallum-maga-pete-ricketts-mike-rogers; https://news.meaww.com/trump-accuses-fox-of-boosting-democrats-as-he-makes-stunning-claim-about-his-rallies; https://politicalwire.com/2026/10/06/trump-accuses-fox-of-platforming-dumocrat-jihadists/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Newsroom

Overall Veracity: 38%

## Tags

- media-loyalty-grievance (90%)
- fox-news (85%)
- 2020-election-denial (75%)
- ad-hominem (60%)
- midterms-2026 (60%)
- live-tv-reaction (70%)
- nebraska-senate (50%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**"She never interviews me like that": a Fox interview with Abdul El-Sayed gets him branded a "Jihadist"**

Monday night ended with a second attack on the New York Times over a photo of his Doral resort. He called its staff "STONE COLD LOSERS" headed "TO HELL," and then a batch of routine endorsements went out. After a normal night's sleep, Tuesday morning opened with boasts about his rally crowds and soured when Fox News gave airtime to two of his party's opponents. He called Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed a "Jihadist" and Nebraska independent Dan Osborn a "sleazebag," complained that the Fox host "never interviews me like that," counted 2020 among his wins in passing, and finished by describing France as a country "Islam" wants "to take over." He didn't urge anyone to act, but the sharpest edge of the day was calling a candidate a "Jihadist" without offering any basis other than his religion.

Full digest for 2026-10-06: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 6). FoxNews is long form interviewing the sleazebag,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117394338110958110
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "FoxNews is long form interviewing the sleazebag, Dan..." Truth Social, 6 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117394338110958110. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "FoxNews is long form interviewing the sleazebag, Dan...," Truth Social, October 6, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117394338110958110.

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